Derbyshire

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The gazebos in the garden wall at Hardwick Hall were probably designed by Robert Smythson in 1590-97.

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Hardwick Old Hall Conduit House

The conduit house at Hardwick Old Hall probably dates from the late 16th century.

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The Hermit's Cave

At the foot of Cratcliffe Rocks is a cave with a carving of Jesus on the cross. It was recorded by Pilkington in 1789 but dates from earlier times.

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Druid's Rocks

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Solomon's Temple

At 1,441 feet above sea level on the summit of Grin Low, and sometimes known as Grin Low Tower, is the 20 feet high Solomon's Temple. It is built on the site of a Bronze Age barrow, and perhaps replaced an earlier structure. Solomon Mycock was the man who was responsible for raising money by public subscription to build the tower in 1896, and 100 years later it was restored by public money and is now part of Grin Low Country Park.

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IcehouseThe icehouse at Calke Abbey has two entrances and two long rectangular chambers. It is the only one of its kind in England and was probably built in the late 18th century.

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The Orangery

The orangery in the kitchen garden at Calke Abbey was built in 1777 and the glass dome added in 1837.

Orange, lemon and lime trees were grown in it, as well as myrtle, mimosa and bougainvillea and a collection of pelargoniums. A Chusan Palm survives to this day.

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Stone Island

Stone Island was designed by Lewis Knight in 1991 for the Severn Trent water Company and cost £50,000.

The standing stones are erected on a snail shell mound that forms both a viewing platform and an eyecatcher.

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Queen Mary's Bower

Thought to have been built on an ancient earthwork, Queen Mary's Bower is said to have been made for Mary Queen of Scots to take the air when she was in captivity at Chatsworth.

It was restored in the early 19th century by Wyatville.

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Temple of Flora

The Temple of Flora was designed by William Talman in 1693-5 as a bowling house. It was moved to its present position in about 1765 and is now the public entrance to the gardens.

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Cascade House

The Temple or Cascade House was designed by Thomas Archer in 1703 and was finally completed in 1711. The stone carvings are by Henri Nadauld and Samuel Watson. Paxton and Holmes partly reconstructed it in about 1833, when a tunnel was made below. It was fully restored in the 1990s.

Thomas Archer also designed the Pavilion at​Wrest Park GRAVENHURST Bedfordshire

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Summerhouse

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The Conservative Wall

Paxton and Robertson made a forcing wall in about 1832. Paxton called it a conservative wall because it conserved heat. In 1848-50, Paxton glazed it to form a greenhouse in steps up the hillside; 331 feet long and 7 feet wide.

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The First Dukes Greenhouse

The greenhouse was originally built in 1697-98 and was rebuilt in 1749-50. Joseph Paxton also made alterations in 1832.

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The Grotto

The Grotto was designed in 1798 by White Watson, a Bakewell geologist, who was paid £66. 18s. 9d. for his 'time and trouble fordesigning the grotto and for fossils'. It was built for Lady Georgiana Spencer (1757-1806), the wife of the 5th Duke. The roof of the grotto was originally thatched and a summerhouse was added later.

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Revelation

Revelation is a water sculpture designed by Angela Corner in 1999.

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The Great Conservatory

The Great Conservatory at Chatsworth was built in 1836-1840 and was designed by Joseph Paxton and Decimus Burton. It covered just over three-quarters of an acre and the 24,560 sash bars measured about 40 miles. In 1843, Queen Victoria drove through it in a carriage.

After the 1st World War, the plants had died and Charles Markham, the grandson of Joseph Paxton, supervised its demolition in 1920.

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Stables

The Stables at Chatsworth were built in 1758-63 and were designed by James Paine for the 4th Duke of Devonshire.

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The Hunting Tower

The Hunting Tower, or The Stand, was possibly designed by Robert Smythson for Bess of Hardwick in about 1582.

Being built as a free-standing prospect tower, it is said to be Britain's first folly tower.

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Crich Stand

There was a limestone prospect tower, 40 yards northwest of the present tower, built by Francis Hurt in 1788. When quarrying started to undermine the tower it was taken down in 1849 and the date stone and masonry from it was used in building Cricjh Stand in 1851. This tower was also affected by subsidence, and demolished in 1922.

​ The present memorial to the Sherwood Foresters was built in 1923.

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Arboretum Entrance Lodge

The Entrance Lodge was designed by Henry Duesbury in about 1850.

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Renishaw Classical Temple

There is a small 20th century temple in the woods near to Renishaw Hall.

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Renishaw Gothick Lodge

The early 19th century Gothick Lodge was the entrance arch on the approach drive to Renishaw Hall and was moved to its present position near to the lake in the mid 19th century.

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Renishaw Gothick Temple

The Gothick Temple at Renishaw was designed by Joseph Badger as an aviary in the early 19th century and is now used as a pets' cemetery.

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Renishaw Orangery

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Renishaw Stables

The stable court at Renishaw was designed by Joseph Badger of Sheffield in 1795. Within the pediment is the Sitwell coat of arms made in Coade stone.

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Garden room

The garden room is in the garden of Bolsover Little Castle.

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The Victoria Tower

The Victoria Tower may have been so called because of Queen Victoria's visit to Matlock in 1832, but the tower was built in 1844 by John Petchell, the owner of the Heights of Abraham.

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Riber Castle

Riber Castle was built for John Smedley, the owner of the hydro in Matlock, between 1862 and 1868 at a cost of £60,000. His original idea was to build a 225 feet high observatory.

The castle was once a private school and was bought by the local council in 1936 for £1,500. In 1963 it was bought from the council for £500 and became a zoo, and was back on the market in 1990 for £1.5 million.

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Icehouse

The icehouse at Melbourne Hall was made in the late 18th century and has later repairs.

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Grotto

The Grotto at Melbourne Hall is also known as The Wishing Well and has sulphurous waters in it. It was made in the early 19th century with bricks covered in tufa, shells and marble. Inscribed on a stone is a poem by George Lamb:

'Rest weary stranger in this shady cave, and taste if languid of mineral wave'

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The Muniment Room

The early 17th century Muniment Room at Melbourne Hall was originally built as a dovecote or garden pavilion. It was altered in 1709 when London and Wise laid out the gardens for Thomas Coke. William Cook of Walcot carried out the work.

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Reform Tower

William Pole Thornhill, of Stanton Hall, had a tower built on Stanton Moor to commemorate the passing of the Reform Bill in 1832, in honour of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764-1845). Grey was a Whig Prime Minister from 1830-1834.

The tower may also have been used as a hunting tower.

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The Fountain

The conduit head was erected at Youlgreave in 1829 by the Youlgreave Friendly Society of Women.